Firearm.



No. 806,496. PATBNTBB DEG. 5, 1905. lE. E. RBDPIELD. PIREARM.

APPLICATION FILED API-1.26, 1905.

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UNTER .ils STATES.

EDWARD E. REDFIELD, oF GLENDAD, OREGON.

FIFIEARNI.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

Application led April 26, 1905. Serial No. 257,448.

To I/Z whom, it Duty concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD E. REDFIELD,

' a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Glendale, in the county of Douglas and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Firearms, of which the following is a ful-l, clear, and exact description.

The particular purpose of the invention is to improve upon the magazine-ride to the extent that a small-sized frame usually adapted to receive a short cartridge is made to receive a much longer one by reason of the fingerthe nger-lever and the frame, and, further,

to provide means for cushioning the rearmost cartridge in the magazine, thereby preventing the bullet being battered by the action of the feed-spring of the magazine, as when the point of the bullet is marred it interferes with its accuracy in flight.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts,

-as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and

pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters'of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through the frame of a magazine-rifle having the improvements incorporated, showing the fingerlever in open position in positive lines and in Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the frame, the section being taken substantially on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation of the carrier, and Fig. 4 is a vdetail view of the 'frame being provided with the customary openings`13 and 14L for the reception of the barrel and the magazine. The frame is provided, further, with the customary hammer 15, pivoted therein, and the rear mainspring` 16, and the trigger 17, which acts directly on the hammer, is pivoted in the bottom rear extension 19 of the frame between lugs 18,A

spaced from the sides of the frame, asis shown in Fig. 2, and pivot-pins 19a extend outwardly from the said lugs. The trigger is provided with the usual controlling-spring 20.

At the under face of the rear portion of the breech-bolt 10 a recess 21 is made, and the firing-pin 22 is provided with a heel-section 22a independent thereof, which heel in action enters a cavity 23 in the front wall of the recess 21 to engage with the firing-pin; but when the breech-bolt is drawn back the heel-section 22adrops down at its forward end, pressed by a spring 24, so that the firing-pin cannot be accidentally pushed forward before the proper time. When the linger -lever B is closed, it strikes the lower hook end 26 of a locking-block 25, mounted to slide vertically in the frame A and force the said block up into the recess 21 of the bolt 10, thereby restoring the heel-section 22a of the firing-pin Y to its normal position, so that it may be actuated by the hammer.

The finger-lever B is of the usual type, being provided with an arm 27 at its forward end, which extends up through an opening 28 in the bottom of the frame into the slot-in the breech-bolt, where said arm is pivoted to the said breech-bolt by a suitable pin 29. The body of the finger-lever B is provided with a latchbolt 30 at its forefinger-section 81 to engage with the keeper 32 in the frame when the lever is closed, and adjacent to said latch 30 the finger-lever is provided with a recess 33, which receives the hook end 26 of the locking-block when the lever is closed to hold said block up to its working position.

The main feature of the invention consists in the manner in which the linger-lever B is pivoted to the frame so as to impart to the breech-bolt the greatest possible throw in agiven direction. This is accomplished through the medium of links 34, which are pivoted to the finger-lever B at each side forward of the foreiinger-section 31, as is shown at 35 in Fig. 1, and the said links are further pivoted on the pins 19, extending from the lugs 18 of the frame, the latter pivot-points on the links 34C being to the rear of the pivot of the trigger 17, as is also best shown in Fig. 1. Under this swinging-lever support for the iinger-lever B the action of the lever is rendered exceedingly easy in either direction, and the throw of the breech-bolt l() can be rendered abnormally great, and yet all its accuracy of movement will be preserved, rendering it possible to use a much longer cartridge than here- IOO IIO

tofore in a small-sized frame without any impediment to the movement of the cartridge or any portion of the mechanism of the frame employed in the handling or discharge of the cartridge.

C represents a carrier for the cartridge, which normally lies at the bottom of the frame A, being pivoted at a point to the rear of the locking-block 25, and which extends to the fore end of the frame, where it is provided with a check projection 36 for the shells, and the said carrier at its left-hand side is provided with a diagonal channel 37 near its pivot end and a second diagonal channel 38 near its free end, the two channels inclining in opposite directions, asis shown in Fig. 3. The under surface 39 of the said carrier is undulating, being provided with a finger 40, forming a continuation of one side of the channel 38. A shield 36a is located at the 'right-hand side of the carrier adjacent to the channel 37, and a guide-plate 37 L is countersunk in the left-hand side of the carrier,which plate crosses the said channel and is pivoted at the rear portion of the carrier. Forward of the channel 37 the guide-plate 37l terminates in an inclined head 37b, and a recess 37 c is made in the outer face of the plate, registering with the channel 37. The guide-plate is normally pushed voutward by a suitable spring 37 d, as is shown inFig. 3. As thefinger-lever is pushed forward the pin 41 strikes the -upper edge of the carrier, and, guided by the shield 36 and the head 37b of the plate r37, said pin rides into the channel 37 assuming the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1 when the breech-bolt is opened. As the linger-lever is drawn rearward the pin 41 rides down the channel 37, lifting the carrier. Then the pin leaves said channel and rides along the bottom of the carrier, supporting it in its upper position until when the pin 41 engages with the finger 40 it throws the carrier downward, and the said pin as the carrier drops moves upward and outward through the channel 38. A spring 42 exerts upward pressure upon the free end of the carrier when in its lower position, (shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1,) and the said carrier after receiving a cartridge when the breech-bolt is drawn back is raised at the initial forward movement of the bolt and then depressed near the nal movement by the operation of the pin 41 on the extension-arm 27 of the nger-lever B, which pin as the breech-bolt is carried forward enters the inclined channel 37 of the carrier, raising the latter, and as the pin leaves thesaid channel 37 it travels along the lower edge 39 of the carrier, sustaining said carrier in elevated position until the breechbolt has nearly pressed'the cartridge into the barrel, whereupon the pin 41 enters the channel 38,. guided thereto by the linger 40, and the carrier is then thrown to its normal position, while the pin 41 passes up to a point above the upper portion of the carrier, when the finger-lever B is closed, as is shown byl dotted lines in Fig. 1.

The third improved feature of the invention consists in the cushion for the rearmost cartridge of the magazine. This cushion consists of a face-plate 43, which is presented to the fore end of the frame A, and is located in front of and to the left of the extension-arm 27 of the linger-lever B. A more or less angularly shaped shank 44, forming a portion of the face-plate 43, is pivoted by a pin 45 to the lefthand side pf the upper end portion of said extension-arm 27, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The said face-plate 43 may be fiat, but is preferably more or less V-shaped, as is illustrated in Fig. 1. A spring 46, attached to the upper edge of the shank 44, has bearing against the breech-bolt, tending to render the plate.

and shank more or less elastic, and when the finger-lever is closed, as is shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, the face-plate of the cushion extends sufliciently down over the delivery end of the magazine within the frame to receive an impact of the innermost cartridge in the magazine and presents a yielding stop therefor, entirely preventing the bullet from being injured.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In rearms, a frame,a breech-bolt operating in the frame, a finger-lever pivoted to the breech-bolt, a locking device for the said finger-lever; carried thereby, parallel link-supports for the finger-lever, independent of the trigger, which supports are pivoted to the lever and to the frame at a point above and to the rear of the pivot-point for the trigger, whereby the breech-bolt is given a maximum throw in a short frame and the position of the trigger is not disturbed, and a spring-controlled cushion-plate pivoted to the finger-lever where it connects with the breech-bolt, said cushion-plate extending downwardly forward of the front end ofA the breech-bolt for action on the innermost cartridge in the magazine when the breech-bolt is closed.

2. In firearms, Aa linger-lever and a cushionplate carried thereby, which plate when the lever is closed is positioned at the delivery end of the magazine of the arm, receiving the base of theinnermost cartridge, for the purpose specified.

3. In firearms,aframe, abreech-boltoperating within the frame, a finger-lever for the breech-bolt, a cartridge-receiving face-plate located in front of the inner end of the fingerlever, a shank extending from the said faceplate, being pivoted to the said lever, and

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the frame, the breech-bolt and a cartridge-carrier pvoted at its rear end within the frame and provided in one side face with a diagonal channel near its pivotal end and a second diagonal channel near its free end, the two channels inclin'lng downwardly 1n direction of each other, a shield extending up from the reverse .side of the carrier adjacent to the channel at frame and the breech-bolt, and a pin carried by the inner end of the said finger-lever, which pin at the closing movement of the lever passes down the channel at the pivoted end of the carrier, travels along its under edge to support the carrier,l engages with the said finger to throw the carrier downward, and passes out through the channel at the free end of the carrier to release the same.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence yof two subscribing witnesses. l

EDWARD E. REDFIELD.

Witnesses:

J FRED. AGKER, JNO. M. RITTER. 

